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Melker MarienliedMelker Marienlied, first German Marienlied (song in praise of the Virgin Mary), probably composed between 1130 and 1160 in a monastery in Bavaria or Austria and handed down in a manuscript kept in the Abbey of Melk. The 14 verses consisting of 3 rhyming couplets each and the refrain "Sancta Maria" tell of the conception and birth of Jesus. Literature: Deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters (lex.); G. M. Schäfer, Untersuchungen zur deutsch-sprachigen Marienlyrik, 1971.
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